Subrahmanyam Sanjay. Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India

Oxford University Press, 1990. — 284 p.Essays previously appeared in Indian economic and social history review. Includes bibliographical references and index. The concepts of "trade," "market," and "state" both divide historians, economists, and anthropologists, and provide a meeting point for discussion in these disciplines. These essays, originally published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and available now for the first time in a single volume, provide a comprehensive look at the process of economic change in pre-industrial India; the ways in which markets functioned; the role of individuals merchants in the regional societies of India; the position of mercantile communities as agents and victims of change; and the complex relationships between political states and trading communities.